A friend went on vacation and snapped these photos in a kid’s park in Guilin.
Photo credits: Aurelie Glorieux.
They’re made of foam, for kids, and the fathers apparently kept putting theirs kids next to them to take pictures.
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Spotted on the web, a luxury concept hotel in Guilin: the Hotel of Modern Art (HOMA) Libre.
They are the only Chinese hotel that is part of the global Relais & Chateaux (luxury hotel and gourmet restaurants) alliance.
Book one of the 46 individually-designed rooms now! Via concierge.com.
A friend mentioned this to me when I was back in Hong Kong: Young professionals, after overworking themselves far past midnight, gather in McDonalds armed with… PSPs and Nintendo DSs.
Even though they are strangers to one another, they will get together for a good multiplayer game of, say, Monster Hunter. It’s popular enough that one local gaming magazine published a list of McDonalds to play.
They even offer 20 whole minutes of free Wifi! (Free Wifi is not easy to find in Hong Kong.)
Siliconera and Kotaku have more on this topic. Image taken from this post.
This happened several months ago, but I think it’s still worth capturing.
From PFSK:
“While single-use chopsticks may be a convenient option for restaurant owners and patrons alike, there is a small group of Chinese DIY designers and young environmentalists who are taking initiative to counter their use. One such group called ‘Unigreen’ has made an open offer online to hand-stitch a free chopstick / soup spoon holder for anyone who pledges to only carry reusable chopsticks.
Original post on PSFK. More pictures of chopstick bags from Unigreen’s blog.
From the Environmental News Network:
"…the world’s largest cow-dung methane power plant started operation on January 21 in China’s Inner Mongolia region. With an investment of 45 million RMB (roughly $US5.7 million) from the country’s largest milk producer, Mengniu Dairy, the plant is able to supply 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to the national power
grid."
The article goes on to say that methane from cows is actually a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and:
"The practice of methane capture has
caught the attention of international carbon traders. Under the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, companies can trade so-called “carbon credits” to help them meet their allowances of greenhouse gas emissions. China has become a major destination for European carbon buyers due to its low prices for the credits. The country also benefits from the financial resources and technologies transferred as a result of those trades."
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